[Radiant] New to Radiant and confused

[James Thompson]

You may not be up to the task but I wrote a Directory and News  
extension which provides a management system like you described,  
tabular and paginated. I then incorporate the material into sites  
using the custom radius tags I wrote for the extension. Maybe Sean or  
someone else who runs a blog can describe how they maintain sanity as  
the number of posts grows.


-James

On Aug 1, 2007, at 3:07 PM, mmoulton at vt.edu wrote:

>
>
> I've done a little bit with Radiant but I haven't done much digging  
> into the
> more complex functionality.  I'm a bit confused about something  
> though.
>
> Looking at things like the Blog demo, is the answer to really  
> create each post
> as a child?  Isn't this going to be unwieldy when a blog has say,  
> 3000 posts on
> it?
>
> The site I'm working on (for my High School class) is going to have  
> a News area
> with stories posted occasionally, in similar fashion to the blog  
> demo.  I would
> somewhat prefer a more simple method of adding the stories to a  
> table, but then
> it seems I would lose the ability to iterate through them as  
> children and such.
>
> The same idea applies with the lists of people-- I don't think  
> having 500 child
> pages, one for each person, is logical, but I'm missing the correct  
> way to do
> this, I think.
>
> What I feel like I'm after is something that would let me iterate  
> through a
> table (with a parameter attached to filter the options), and then  
> display each
> item in a certain way, without creating a billion child pages.
>
> Any information would be appreciated, and I apologize if this is a  
> completely
> stupid question.
>
> Thanks,
> --Mike
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